borderland
Example Sentences
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The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
In the early 20th century, irrigation reforms turned the Mexican borderlands into rich terrain for cotton growing, attracting migrant laborers from all over the country.
“Conquering the North” is a sprawling book about wars, treaties, empires and ethnic conflict along China’s northern borderlands.
Border Patrol, on the other hand, patrols the borderlands for anyone they encounter and suspect of entering illegally.
From Los Angeles Times
After decades of exile - in Thailand, the Netherlands and the borderlands of Myanmar - he entered a ceasefire with India.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
